CHALLENGE
How might we transfer the easily overlooked physical urban space into a civic information platform and recycle the disposed of infrastructure into a hyper urban information platform?

POTENTIAL
We designed and developed an AR application turning city advertising billboards to urban information platform which connects people with immersive urban experience

The accumulated digital information and the deterioration of the urban infrastructure make the gap between the virtual world and physical urban space deeper and deeper gradually.
How might we transferring the easily overlooked physical urban space into a civic information platform and recycle the disposed of infrastructure into a hyper urban information platform?
We proposed FuturEats, a virtual platform that transfers the (un)used urban infrastructure into civic information platform and continuously engages people in urban civic action through the lens of real-time AR.

Shanghai, like many other highly populated city hubs, presents an interesting urban condition where advertising billboards are “exposed” to pedestrians from an elevated platform that allows a safe and efficient way to walk around the city.

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With FuturEats, a virtual platform that transfers the (un)used urban infrastructure into civic information platform and continuously engages people in urban civic action through the lens of real-time AR, we transfer urban facade into playful interface.

Citizens can use FuturEats AR check related information about food

As well as well-organized location-based restaurant information

Visitors experienced the applications during the exhibition in July 2019, Shanghai.

︎KEY TAKE-AWAY
- AR could help enhance real estate value via experience design
- keep the easiness of understand in geo-location based application
- Consider unexpected feedback and way of using from users

NEXT STEPS
- Develop fully functioned application with Unity and Mapbox AR SDK
- Get feedback from more users and clients to enhance the necessary functions

NEXT PROJECT ︎︎︎